About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Friday, June 08, 2007

June 8......

June 8 is the 159th (160th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Inspiration "Don't loaf and invite inspiration. Light out after it with a club." — Jack London

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Ineptitude "Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life." — Orrin Hatch, Republican, Mormon from Utah U.S. senator explaining his support for the death penalty

Thought for the day: "Would that government spent our money like it was their own."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known.

● 1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.

● 1247 - Revolt of Rhys ap Meredudd.

● 1405 - Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders.

● 1536 - Ten Articles of Religion were published by the English clergy, in support of Henry VIII's Declaration of Supremacy. The Anglican Church had begun defining its doctrinal distinctions, after breaking with Roman Catholicism.

● 1624 - An earthquake strikes Peru.

● 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

● 1783 - The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people, one fifth of Iceland's population and starts a seven-year famine.

● 1786 - In New York City, commercial ice cream was manufactured and sold for the first time.

● 1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.

● 1790 - The first loan for the U.S. was repaid. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was negotiated and secured on September 18, 1789 by Alexander Hamilton.

● 1809 - Thomas Paine dies in obscurity in New York. Six people follow his casket to the grave. Ten years later William Cobbett, essayist/pamphleteer who attacked Paine during his lifetime, retrieved and sent the coffin to England, to honor Paine with a memorial there, but the plan collapsed, and his remains were lost.

● 1810 - Birth of German composer Robert A. Schumann, who composed the sacred tune CANONBURY, to which is commonly sung the hymn, 'Lord Speak to Me That I May Speak.'

● 1815 - 39 German states unite under the Act of Confederation

● 1824 - Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec

● 1845 - Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tenn., at age 78.

● 1861 - People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union

● 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.

● 1904 - Battle between the Colorado Militia and striking miners at Dunnville ended with six union members dead and 15 taken prisoner. Seventy-nine of the strikers were "deported" to Kansas two days later.

● 1904 - U.S. Marines landed in Tangiers, Morocco, to "protect" U.S. citizens.

● 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.

● 1915 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.

● 1959 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail in Jacksonville, FL.

● 1959 - X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m

● 1963 - Ward charged over 'immoral earnings'; Dr Stephen Ward, a London osteopath and friend of Christine Keeler, is arrested and charged with living on immoral earnings

● 1965 - US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam

● 1965 - USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon

● 1966 - One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.

● 1966 - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.

● 1967 - Israeli aircraft and boats attack the USS Liberty in international waters, during Israel's "Six Day War." The attack included rocket fire, machine-gunning, napalm bombing, and torpedoing, for over two hours, directed also at fleeing life rafts. 34 Americans killed; 171 wounded. A ship was forbidden to go to Liberty's assistance. The attack was downplayed and the press reported it lasted only five minutes and consisted of a single torpedo attack. Numerous individuals since then claim it was no accident--including Israeli officers involved and U.S. administration members. The U.S. has never publicly investigated the incident.

● 1968 - James Earl Ray was captured at the London Airport. He was suspected of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

● 1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

● 1968 - New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted

● 1969 - U.S. President Richard Nixon met with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops would pull out by August.

● 1972 - N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3230

● 1973 - The American Society of Missiology was founded in St. Louis. The ecumenical organization seeks to stimulate an academic interest in Christian missions, and publishes the journal 'Missiology: An International Review.'

● 1974 - An F4 tornado strikes the U.S. city of Emporia, Kansas, killing six.

● 1975 - 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35

● 1975 - USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing

● 1976 - Trial begins for Bob Robideau and Dino Butler for murdering two FBI agents at Oglala, South Dak. They would be acquitted on grounds of self-defense; later, a third Native American activist, Leonard Peltier, would be convicted of the same charges after most evidence and witnesses used by Robideau and Butler were disallowed in Peltier's trial.

● 1978 - Through the voice of its president Spencer W. Kimball, the Mormon Church reversed a 148-year- long policy of spiritual discrimination against African-American leadership within the denomination. {Of course this had nothing to do with the possible loss of its tax exempt status if the policy were to continue.}

● 1978 - A jury in Clark County, Nevada, ruled that the "Mormon will," was a forgery. The work was supposedly written by Howard Hughes.

● 1978 - Woman takes world sailing record; Yachtswoman Naomi James breaks the solo round-the-world sailing record by two days.

● 1982 - Fifty die in Argentine air attack; Up to 50 British servicemen are killed in an Argentine air attack on two supply ships in the Falklands.

● 1982 - U.S. President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament. President Reagan predicted that Marxism-Leninism would wind up “on the ash heap of history.”

● 1984 - Homosexuality is declared not a crime in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

● 1986 - Former United Nations Secretary-General and alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.

● 1987 - Fawn Hill began testifying in the Iran-Contra hearings. She said that she had helped to shred some documents.

● 1987 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as of June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.

● 1990 - U.S. citizen Michael Devine kidnapped and murdered by CIA-paid Guatemalan military officials, led by ex-School of the Americas two-time graduate Col. Julio Alpirez.

● 1991 - A victory parade was held in Washington, DC, to honor veterans of the Persian Gulf War. {Something that will never be possible for Iraqi occupation veterans.}

● 1992 - The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

● 1994 - The warring factions in Bosnia agreed to a one-month cease-fire.

● 1995 - U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady was rescued by U.S. Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was shot down on June 2.

● 1996 - China set off an underground nuclear test blast.

● 1996 - Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

● 1997 - First protest on a GM test site in England. Anti-genetic food activists play cricket using bioengineered potatoes previously scheduled for harvesting. What with a muddy field and hard swings, the entire crop was destroyed. Cambridge, England.

● 1998 - The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston to be its president.

● 1998 - In the U.S., the FTC brought an antitrust complaint against Intel Corp., alleging its policies punished other developers of microprocessor chips.

● 2001 - Marc Chagall's painting "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8x10 painting was valued at about $1 million. A group called the International Committee for Art and Peace later announced that they would return the painting after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace.

● 2001 - In Japan, a knife-wielding man murdered eight children at an elementary school.

● 2004 - Nate Olive and Sarah Jones began the first known continuous hike of the 1,800-mile trail down the U.S. Pacific Coast. They completed the trek at the U.S.-Mexico border on September 28.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Audomar, Bishop of Thérouanne, confessor● St. Bron● St. Calliope● St. Clodulf● St. Edgar the Peaceful● St. Elphege, Bishop, martyr● St. Eustadiola● St. Gildard, Bishop of Rouen, confessor● St. Heraclius of Sens● St. Levan● St. Marius, hermit● St. Maximinus of Aix, bishop● St. Medard, Bishop of Noyon, confessor● St. Melania the Elder● St. Muirchu● St. Robert of Frassinoro● St. Sabinianus, abbot, confessor● St. Sallustian● St. Severinus● St. Syria, virgin (at Troyes)● St. Trojecia, virgin (at Rodez)● St. William of York● Bl. Pacificus of Cerano● Bl. Syra of Ireland, virgin

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 25 (Civil Date: June 8)● Third Finding of the Honorable Head of St. John the Baptist.● Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Cyprus.● St. Dodo, prince of Georgia.● Synaxis of Saints of Volhynia: Saints Yaropolk, Stephen, Macarius, Igor and Juliana.● Righteous John and Mary of Ustiug (Vologda).● Commemoration of the Reunion of the 3,000,000 Uniates with the Orthodox Church at Vilna in 1831.

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